EditorialThe saltmines of Wieliczka near Cracow produced roughly one third of the Polish kings' income. With its enormous machinery made of huge timbers, the mine was an early tourist attraction-even poet Goethe went down the shafts. Rope-and pulley system.
EditorialTravelling Steam Lokomobile Maschinenfabrik Rudolf Wolf, Magdeburg-Buckau, 1862. This first locomobile of the Wolf company was used to drive threshing machines. It was in use from 1862 to 1887 on a farm near Strassfurt. Horses drew the machine to its p...
EditorialInstrument of astragal (of a bovine?) With two openings, possibly to connect two ends of wood next to or above each other, or also to serve instead of a pulley, rope tensioner, organic, bone, 7,4 x 4 cm, vmeb 600-600, Netherlands, Friesland, Littensera...
EditorialKnob with Escutcheon and Lock Mechanism, hard paste porcelain, bronze, gold, metal, Escutcheon, convex, with inner and outer ring of bronze cast in foliate design; backed with brass plate to which pulley is attached. Knob of bell pull in foliate bronze...
EditorialThe Interior of Pitlessie Mill with a Man Sieving Corn, Sir David Wilkie, 17851841, British, 1818, Watercolor and gouache over graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper, Sheet: 7 1/2 x 11 1/2 inches (19 x 29.2 cm), agricultura...
EditorialA Sailing Barge being loaded with Hay, December 1827, Cornelius Varley, 17811873, British, 1827, Graphite with watercolor and black ink on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper, Sheet: 11 1/4 x 20 inches (28.6 x 50.8 cm), barge, dinghy, flag, gen...
EditorialInstrument of astragal (of a bovine?) With two openings, possibly to connect two ends of wood next to or above each other, or also to serve instead of a pulley, rope tensioner, organic, bone, 7,4 x 4 cm, vmeb 600-600, Netherlands, Friesland, Littensera...
EditorialSquare plank part of needle wood with an iron nail. Nick in the wood. Pulley ?, plank, nail, organic, wood, metal, iron, 5,4 x 4,7 x 1,8 cm, roman 15-30 AD, Netherlands, North Holland, Velsen, Velsen, Velsen I.
EditorialPulley-Shaped Earrings, Japan, Final Jmon period (ca. 1000300 B.C.) or later, Culture: Japan, Earthenware, (a): H. 3/4 in. (1.9 cm); Diam. 1 1/8 in. (2.9 cm), b): H. 3/4 in. (1.9 cm); Diam. 1 in. (2.5 cm), Ceramics.
EditorialTravelling Steam Lokomobile Maschinenfabrik Rudolf Wolf, Magdeburg-Buckau, 1862. This first locomobile of the Wolf company was used to drive threshing machines. It was in use from 1862 to 1887 on a farm near Strassfurt. Horses drew the machine to its p...
EditorialBlack Lives Matter, activists go to court to avoid Portland-style federal response to protests, while other groups say CPD has abused protesters
EditorialAnother weight mill with two courses, Weight hanging from a pulley helps to drive two mills at the same time, Fig. 93, after p. 18, p. 117, 1629, Iacobum de Strada ? Rosberg: Kunstliche Abriss, allerhand Wasser-, Wind-, Ross- und Hand M?hlen, beneben s...
EditorialTo drive the water up through a power plant, Pump driven by a pulley operated by a person with weights, Fig. 34, after p. 18, p. 58, 1629, Iacobum de Strada ? Rosberg: Kunstliche Abriss, allerhand Wasser-, Wind-, Ross- und Hand M?hlen, beneben sch?nen ...
EditorialWiderumb another type of weight mills, Mill operated with a weight hanging from a pulley, Fig. 92, at p. 18, p. 116, 1629, Iacobum de Strada ? Rosberg: Kunstliche Abriss, allerhand Wasser-, Wind-, Ross- und Hand M?hlen, beneben sch?nen und n?tzlichen P...
EditorialModel of a Masting Sheer, Model of a mast stand on a ground board representing a bank. The two legs, connected at the top by a heavy crossbar and a hood, lean forward and are held back by two braces and six stays. The legs are on a wall with a semicirc...
EditorialStreet and round well with metal roof. Water wells (series title), A street with a round well. There are two balusters on the edge of the well, between which a metal structure is attached. The aker hangs over a pulley on this. The print is part of an a...
EditorialPeat Carrier Guild of Amsterdam, Guild Medal of Jan van der Spring, Overman, Silver Medal. Front: man with piled peat basket on his neck standing between toppled basket and house, with a pulley with rope hanging, above it on cloud: crowned coat of arms...
EditorialLaying the first stone by HM the King on the railway bridge in Zutphen on the 22nd October 1861 (title on object), Ceremony of laying the first stone for the railway bridge in Zutphen, performed by King William III on October 22, 1861. The company unde...
EditorialPrint - 'Laying the Foundation Stone', The Illustrated Australian News, Melbourne, 1879, Wood cut engraving of the laying of the (Royal) Exhibition Building's foundation stone on 19 February 1879, published in The Illustrated Australian News, 1879. The...
EditorialPhotograph, James Gault, Mounting Department, Abbotsford, Victoria, circa 1928, Photograph showing workers, possibly in the Mounting Department, at the Kodak Australasia Pty Ltd factory in Abbotsford, circa 1928. During the first few decades of the 20t...
EditorialThe parables of the husbandmen. Holkham Bible Picture Book. England, circa 1320-1330. [Lower drawing] Two parables are illustrated. On left; the stone rejected by the builders. Three masons are shown with pulley, basket of stones, plumb-bob, hammer, ma...
EditorialTravelling Steam Lokomobile Maschinenfabrik Rudolf Wolf, Magdeburg-Buckau, 1862. This first locomobile of the Wolf company was used to drive threshing machines. It was in use from 1862 to 1887 on a farm near Strassfurt. Horses drew the machine to its p...
EditorialThe saltmines of Wieliczka near Cracow produced roughly one third of the Polish kings' income. With its enormous machinery made of huge timbers, the mine was an early tourist attraction-even poet Goethe went down the shafts. Rope-and pulley system.